Able Quote by Jessica Lange

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

— Clark Gregg

I'm not a Shakespearean actor really, or a Shakespearean director.

— Sam Wanamaker

Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of…

— Al Pacino

Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two or three…

— Al Pacino

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of…

— Michael Morpurgo

I've been doing some Shakespeare acting classes - and I really enjoyed it. I never thought that would be something I would say, but…

— Kevin Clifton

I never expected to become an actor at all. You can do anything you put your mind to it!

— Karrueche Tran

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I…

— Judy Davis

Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself... I'm fascinated by the thought of being an…

— Tom Jones

Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

— Constance Wu

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I…

— Charlie Day

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

— Renee O'Connor